Hillary Clinton has been working closely with decorated anti-war retired Gen. Wesley Clark on foreign policy, fueling rumors he could be vice-president on a “Clinton-Clark” ticket in 2008.

In recent months Clark has joined Clinton several times on the campaign trail, has been publishing a number of profile-raising editorials, and is making a substantial effort to keep his slick PAC website updated with his media schedule. He also promotes email campaigns that solicit names and contact information, as he did in his recent push to remove Rush Limbaugh from Armed Forces Radio.

Clinton’s 2002 vote to authorize President Bush to use force in Iraq has haunted her, but having a former military general as a running mate could boost her foreign policy credentials on the campaign trail. In 1999, Clark led efforts to remove Slobodan Milosevic during the Kosovo War as the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.

Clark also has presidential campaign experience, as he unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004. Like Clinton’s husband Bill, Clark is also originally from Arkansas, which could help Clinton’s standing in southern states.

Independent of his work with Clinton, Clark is positioning himself as an authority who could stave off a future war with Iran planned by President Bush. Two weeks before he endorsed Clinton for president, Clark released his memoir “Time to Lead” in which he claims a “senior general” told him after 9/11 that the Bush administration planned to bring regime change in seven Middle Eastern countries, which include Iraq and Iran, by 2006. The other five countries allegedly included in this plan were Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Iran.

So, are the rumors true? Is Clark preparing to jump on a 2008 ticket with Clinton?

Here’s a look at how they’ve been working together over the past few months.

September 4: Releases his memoir “A Time to Lead” that claims the Bush Administration plotted regime change in seven Middle Eastern countries after 9/11.

September 16: Defends Clinton on CNN when Wolf Blitzer asks if she was right to say in a televised Democratic presidential debate that she would not engage in talks with Iran.

Clark says, “Senator Clinton is exactly right. You don't go to these summit meetings at the head of state level without knowing what's going to happen there. You always have some deliverables when you have a meeting like that. You don't run out as president of the United States and start shaking hands with people and say, “Gee, what can we talk about?’ These things are worked intensively behind the scenes because each one of these meetings carries consequences. And you want to make sure you get the right consequences.”

October 31: The New York Observer reported Clark fires up the crowd for Clinton at the MSNBC debate. Journalist Jason Horowitz’s article says: “In front of the dozens of Hillary volunteers, Wesley Clark stood on top of a short white stepstool in a dark suit yelling into a bullhorn. ‘And she’s got a secret weapon,’ said the retired general and Clinton supporter. ‘Hillary is a great person. She’s warm. I like her. Don’t you like her?”

I suppose Warner is a loser for us either way. If he runs for the Senate they are almost sure to gain that VA seat. If he runs for VP then the Dems are likely to win VA and we can hardly afford to lose those EV’s, which have gone GOP since 1968. Pretty sad.

Clark came across as such a flip flopper and loser in ‘04 I think maybe he will hurt Hillary.

Aren’t Hillary and Clark two of the myriad Dems who only found out they were part Jewish in their fifties? I know Hillary is only by marriage but still the question arises,” Would they keep a Kosher White House?”

The report of the Iraq Study Group is widely seen as a formal confirmation of US failure in Iraq.

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What the surge would do, however, is put more American troops in harms way, further undercut US forces morale, and risk further alienation of elements of the Iraqi populace. American casualties would probably rise, at least temporarily, as more troops are on the streets; we saw this when the brigade from Alaska was extended and sent into Baghdad last summer. And even if the increased troop presence initially intimidates or frustrates the contending militias, it wont be long before they find ways to work around the obstacles to movement and neighbourhood searches, if they are still intent on pursuing the conflict. All of this is not much of an endorsement for a troop surge that will impose real pain on the already overstretched US forces.

Who would want to work with the witch? BJ is going to be her ‘go to guy’ for everything. The VP position would be a waste of tax-payer money. Clark would be one of the dumbest VP’s on record. The DUmmies love him, so that has to tell you something.

I saw Clark at at Town Hall with Paula Zahn and got to hear the conversations when the camera was not running. Refused to shake his hand afterward. He is an embarrassment to all military people. Within the military there is a rumor that his last couple of commands were very happy to see him leave. They could not stand him because he had already converted from being a general to being a politician. I think that some of his former staffers who have retired should really let the world know what the jerk is like.

Just when I think it can't get any worse if Hitlery were to become President, this proves me wrong. It would absolutely be worse if this U.N.-driven globalist pinko liberal ex military goof was put in the co-pilot's seat.

First...Wes can’t bring a single state from the electoral college. I can’t think of a single region where he has any popular support. The idea that Wes would even be willing to take orders from Hillary is funny enough by itself

Second...if chosen to be VP....a huge number of us who were in the military and under him...will lay out how incompetent he is as a general officer. We also will lay out how he basically tossed our concept of warfare....and allowed the president of the US to personally select targets (or his staff at the WH)...and the military had to build an entire network to support this new concept of warfare. Almost every targeting specialist for the war...just sat there and laughed the entire way through each day’s selection process. Wes...on a scale of one to ten compared against Robert E. Lee....would have been a negative twelve.

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